The paper addresses the need to develop unified methods for subjective and objective quality assessment across speech, audio, picture, and multimedia applications. Commonalities and differences between the currently used standards are overviewed. Examples of the already undertaken research attempting to “bridge the gap” between the quality assessment methods used in various disciplines are indicated. Prospective challenges faced by researchers in the unification process are outlined. They include development of unified scales, defining unified anchors, integration of objective models, maintaining “backward comparability,” and undertaking joint standardization efforts across industry sectors.

Authors: Zielinski, Slawomir; Rumsey, Francis; Bech, Søren
Affiliations: Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, Poland; Logophon Ltd., Oxfordshire, UK; Bang & Olufsen a/s, Struer, Denmark; Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 138 (May 2015) Paper Number: 9308
Publication Date: May 6, 2015 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Perception
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